RICHARD BRADFORD is Research Professor at Ulster University, UK, and Visiting Professor at the University of Avignon, France. His 40 books cover topics as varied as stylistics, Russian Formalism, crime writing, the history of English poetry, modern fiction, and literary aesthetics. His recent works include literary biographies such as Devils, Lusts and Strange Desires: The Life of Patricia Highsmith and Tough Guy: The Life of Norman Mailer.MADELENA GONZALEZ is Chair of Anglophone Literature at the University of Avignon, France, where she heads the Master's program in English Studies and the multidisciplinary research group "Cultural Identity, Texts and Theatricality" (ICTT). She has published widely on contemporary Anglophone literature, theater, and culture. She is co-editor of Aesthetics and Ideology in Contemporary Literature and Drama.KEVIN DE ORNELLAS is Lecturer in English Renaissance Literature at Ulster University, UK. He served as Associate Editor for the two-volume Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Contemporary British and Irish Literature and authored The Horse in Early Modern English Culture: Bridled, Curbed, and Tamed. He has published 20 peer-reviewed essays, dozens of book and play reviews, and hundreds of encyclopedia articles.

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• Notes on Contributors viiIntroduction 1Richard Bradford1 Literary Values 8Peter Lamarque2 Complexity as a Criterion for the Evaluation of Literature 42Anja Müller-Wood3 Schooled Aesthetic Asymmetries: (Back)firing the Canon in Secondary Education 57D.J. Howells4 Defining Literature: The Route to Aesthetic Evaluation 76Paolo Euron5 Kathleen Raine: The Less Received 92Andrew Keanie6 "Is (This) Translation Any Good?": The Evaluation of Literary Translation 110Giuseppe Sofo7 The Algorithm of Beauty: Aesthetic Judgment as a Science 120Madelena Gonzalez8 Literary Value and the Question of Insight on Humanly Relevant Matters 135Emanuela Tegla9 How Books Get Reviewed: Evaluation and the Freelance Journalist 150D.J. Taylor10 A Lifetime of Evaluation 156Penelope Stenning11 Evaluating Unfinished Novels: Octavia E. Butler and the Improbability of Justice 166Rafe McGregor12 "How to Bring So Goode a Matter into a Better Forme": The Value of the Horse in Early Modern Writing 179Elisabetta Deriu13 Reading Performance for the Values Underpinning Production 195Amanda Finch14 Bridging the Gap between Page and Performance Poetry 212Karen Simecek15 Aesthetics and Efficacy in Applied and Community Theater 226Dónall Mac Cathmhaoill16 Antonin Artaud Beyond Judgment: A Radio Reading of "To Have Done With The Judgement of God" with Local Prisoners 243Gary Anderson and Niamh Malone17 "Chief of the Second Rate": James Shirley and Dramatic Value 259Heidi Craig18 "The Glories of our Blood and State" and The Lady of Pleasure: The Genius of [Counterfactual] Britain's National Writer—James Shirley 271Kevin De Ornellas19 Evaluating Literary Evaluation 287Peter Barry20 The Horrible Legacy of Modernism 299Richard Bradford21 Evaluating Poems 331Amy Burns and Richard BradfordIndex 346

RICHARD BRADFORD is Research Professor at Ulster University, UK, and Visiting Professor at the University of Avignon, France. His 40 books cover topics as varied as stylistics, Russian Formalism, crime writing, the history of English poetry, modern fiction, and literary aesthetics. His recent works include literary biographies such as Devils, Lusts and Strange Desires: The Life of Patricia Highsmith and Tough Guy: The Life of Norman Mailer.MADELENA GONZALEZ is Chair of Anglophone Literature at the University of Avignon, France, where she heads the Master's program in English Studies and the multidisciplinary research group "Cultural Identity, Texts and Theatricality" (ICTT). She has published widely on contemporary Anglophone literature, theater, and culture. She is co-editor of Aesthetics and Ideology in Contemporary Literature and Drama.KEVIN DE ORNELLAS is Lecturer in English Renaissance Literature at Ulster University, UK. He served as Associate Editor for the two-volume Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Contemporary British and Irish Literature and authored The Horse in Early Modern English Culture: Bridled, Curbed, and Tamed. He has published 20 peer-reviewed essays, dozens of book and play reviews, and hundreds of encyclopedia articles.

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• Notes on Contributors viiIntroduction 1Richard Bradford1 Literary Values 8Peter Lamarque2 Complexity as a Criterion for the Evaluation of Literature 42Anja Müller-Wood3 Schooled Aesthetic Asymmetries: (Back)firing the Canon in Secondary Education 57D.J. Howells4 Defining Literature: The Route to Aesthetic Evaluation 76Paolo Euron5 Kathleen Raine: The Less Received 92Andrew Keanie6 "Is (This) Translation Any Good?": The Evaluation of Literary Translation 110Giuseppe Sofo7 The Algorithm of Beauty: Aesthetic Judgment as a Science 120Madelena Gonzalez8 Literary Value and the Question of Insight on Humanly Relevant Matters 135Emanuela Tegla9 How Books Get Reviewed: Evaluation and the Freelance Journalist 150D.J. Taylor10 A Lifetime of Evaluation 156Penelope Stenning11 Evaluating Unfinished Novels: Octavia E. Butler and the Improbability of Justice 166Rafe McGregor12 "How to Bring So Goode a Matter into a Better Forme": The Value of the Horse in Early Modern Writing 179Elisabetta Deriu13 Reading Performance for the Values Underpinning Production 195Amanda Finch14 Bridging the Gap between Page and Performance Poetry 212Karen Simecek15 Aesthetics and Efficacy in Applied and Community Theater 226Dónall Mac Cathmhaoill16 Antonin Artaud Beyond Judgment: A Radio Reading of "To Have Done With The Judgement of God" with Local Prisoners 243Gary Anderson and Niamh Malone17 "Chief of the Second Rate": James Shirley and Dramatic Value 259Heidi Craig18 "The Glories of our Blood and State" and The Lady of Pleasure: The Genius of [Counterfactual] Britain's National Writer—James Shirley 271Kevin De Ornellas19 Evaluating Literary Evaluation 287Peter Barry20 The Horrible Legacy of Modernism 299Richard Bradford21 Evaluating Poems 331Amy Burns and Richard BradfordIndex 346

RICHARD BRADFORD is Research Professor at Ulster University, UK, and Visiting Professor at the University of Avignon, France. His 40 books cover topics as varied as stylistics, Russian Formalism, crime writing, the history of English poetry, modern fiction, and literary aesthetics. His recent works include literary biographies such as Devils, Lusts and Strange Desires: The Life of Patricia Highsmith and Tough Guy: The Life of Norman Mailer.MADELENA GONZALEZ is Chair of Anglophone Literature at the University of Avignon, France, where she heads the Master's program in English Studies and the multidisciplinary research group "Cultural Identity, Texts and Theatricality" (ICTT). She has published widely on contemporary Anglophone literature, theater, and culture. She is co-editor of Aesthetics and Ideology in Contemporary Literature and Drama.KEVIN DE ORNELLAS is Lecturer in English Renaissance Literature at Ulster University, UK. He served as Associate Editor for the two-volume Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Contemporary British and Irish Literature and authored The Horse in Early Modern English Culture: Bridled, Curbed, and Tamed. He has published 20 peer-reviewed essays, dozens of book and play reviews, and hundreds of encyclopedia articles.

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• Notes on Contributors viiIntroduction 1Richard Bradford1 Literary Values 8Peter Lamarque2 Complexity as a Criterion for the Evaluation of Literature 42Anja Müller-Wood3 Schooled Aesthetic Asymmetries: (Back)firing the Canon in Secondary Education 57D.J. Howells4 Defining Literature: The Route to Aesthetic Evaluation 76Paolo Euron5 Kathleen Raine: The Less Received 92Andrew Keanie6 "Is (This) Translation Any Good?": The Evaluation of Literary Translation 110Giuseppe Sofo7 The Algorithm of Beauty: Aesthetic Judgment as a Science 120Madelena Gonzalez8 Literary Value and the Question of Insight on Humanly Relevant Matters 135Emanuela Tegla9 How Books Get Reviewed: Evaluation and the Freelance Journalist 150D.J. Taylor10 A Lifetime of Evaluation 156Penelope Stenning11 Evaluating Unfinished Novels: Octavia E. Butler and the Improbability of Justice 166Rafe McGregor12 "How to Bring So Goode a Matter into a Better Forme": The Value of the Horse in Early Modern Writing 179Elisabetta Deriu13 Reading Performance for the Values Underpinning Production 195Amanda Finch14 Bridging the Gap between Page and Performance Poetry 212Karen Simecek15 Aesthetics and Efficacy in Applied and Community Theater 226Dónall Mac Cathmhaoill16 Antonin Artaud Beyond Judgment: A Radio Reading of "To Have Done With The Judgement of God" with Local Prisoners 243Gary Anderson and Niamh Malone17 "Chief of the Second Rate": James Shirley and Dramatic Value 259Heidi Craig18 "The Glories of our Blood and State" and The Lady of Pleasure: The Genius of [Counterfactual] Britain's National Writer—James Shirley 271Kevin De Ornellas19 Evaluating Literary Evaluation 287Peter Barry20 The Horrible Legacy of Modernism 299Richard Bradford21 Evaluating Poems 331Amy Burns and Richard BradfordIndex 346